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Fuel
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2021
165 kr
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'He's one of the best players I've ever played with. As a forward, I'd say he's the best.' Johnny SextonSeán O'Brien does not come from a traditional rugby background. He grew up on a farm in Tullow, far from the rugby hotbeds of Limerick and Cork or the fee-paying schools of Dublin. But as he made …
Fuel
Av Sean O'Brien
Ljudbok, 2020
176 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. ''He''s one of the best players I''ve ever played with. As a forward, I''d say he''s the best.'' Johnny Sexton Seán O''Brien does not come from a traditional rugby background. He grew up on a farm in Tullow, far from the rugby hotbeds of Limerick and Cork or the …
Mountain Partisans
Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 1999
1098 kr
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This is the story of a civil war within the Civil War. Many mountain whites in Southern Appalachia opposed the Confederacy, especially when the South's conscription and impressment policies began to cause severe hardships. Deserters from the Rebel army hid in the mountains and formed guerrilla …
Mobile, 1865
Last Stand of the Confederacy
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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The last major battle of the Civil War at Fort Blakely, Alabama, on April 9, 1865, was quickly overshadowed by the concurrent surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, and is largely forgotten today. And yet the Federal campaign against Mobile, the last important Southern city that remained …
In Bitterness and in Tears
Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 2003
880 kr
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The seldom-recalled Creek War of 1813-1814 and its extension, the First Seminole War of 1818, had significant consequences for the growth of the United States. Beginning as a civil war between Muscogee factions, the struggle escalated into a war between the Moscogees and the United States after …
Downriver
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2001
114 kr
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While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O’Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is sounded more openly than ever before.With …
Cousin Coat
Selected Poems 1976¿2001
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2002
150 kr
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Sean O’Brien is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted English poets now writing, and as a leading poet-critic. Cousin Coat collects the best of O’Brien’s work to date; long-time O’Brien aficionados will be grateful to have so much of the early work available again, while recent converts …
Afterlife
Av Sean O'Brien
E-bok, 2011
155 kr
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The seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell-bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry.At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to …
November
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2011
125 kr
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November is Sean O’Brien’s first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: lost sleep, connections, …
Once Again Assembled Here
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2017
114 kr
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Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of Blake's, a minor public school steeped in military tradition, he also reveals how, forty years ago, a secret conflict dating from the Second World War re-enacted itself …
Birds
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2002
219 kr
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A contemporary adaptation of The Birds by an award-winning poet, published to tie in with a major production at the National Theatre directed by Kathryn Hunter Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the perfect society in "a city where free men might live like birds". But when they start building the bird …
Live Theatre: Six Plays from the North East
Filletting Machine; My Heart's Delight; Shooting the Legend; Wittengenstein on Tyne; Laughter; Cold
Av Alan Plater, C. P. Taylor m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
414 kr
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Published to tie in with the legendary Live Theatre's thirtieth birthday celebrations Spanning three generations, Live Theatre is a celebration of the finest playwrights from the North East. In The Filleting Machine (Tom Hadaway), a fishing family's way of life faces extinction; in You Are My …
Keepers Of The Flame
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2003
219 kr
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A brilliant new thriller about poetry and fascism In the 1930s a young poet and patriot, Richard Jameson falls in love with the socialist daughter of Sir Henry Exton, a powerful media mogul. But in courting her, he finds himself embroiled in a fascist struggle for influence over the heart of the …
Andrew Marvell
Av Sean O'Brien
E-bok, 2010
82 kr
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of …
Train Songs
Poetry of the Railway
Av Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
142 kr
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'This is the night mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. AudenWordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere …
Return of the 90s
A Cultural History of the Present
Av Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2026
232 kr
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The 1990s were a cultural watershed, marking a turning point in popular music, television, cinema, literature and fashion. Nestled between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 attacks, the decade witnessed the 'end of history' and the birth of the internet, the consolidation of neoliberalism, …
Bonfire Party
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2026
160 kr
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The preoccupations of Sean O’Brien’s work have for many of us become newly pressing: the recurrence of history, the shadow of war, the precariousness of a peacetime that can no longer be taken for granted. The Bonfire Party, Forward Prize winner Sean O’Brien’s twelfth poetry collection, takes its …
Bonfire Party
from the three-time winner of The Forward Prize for Poetry
Av Sean O'Brien
E-bok, 2026
229 kr
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The preoccupations of Sean O’Brien’s work have for many of us become newly pressing: the recurrence of history, the shadow of war, the precariousness of a peacetime that can no longer be taken for granted. The Bonfire Party, Forward Prize winner Sean O’Brien’s twelfth poetry collection, takes its …
White House Clubhouse
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 2023
195 kr
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Marissa and Clara’s mom is the newly elected president of the United States and they haven’t experienced much freedom lately. While exploring the White House they discover a hidden tunnel that leads to an underground clubhouse full of antique curiosities, doors heading in all directions—and a …
White House on Fire! (White House Clubhouse #2)
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 2024
268 kr
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When the clubhouse fills with smoke, Marissa and Clara Suarez escape through one of its doors—and find themselves in James Madison’s presidency, with the White House and capital city set on fire by invading British troops! With an iconic portrait of George Washington in hand, they race through the …
White House Undercover (White House Clubhouse #3)
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 2025
202 kr
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White House kids Clara and Marissa Suarez find themselves on the hunt for a stolen eagle sculpture and on the front lines of the labour movement in this noir-style mystery that takes them through the streets of Great Depression–era Washington, DC. Along with Roosevelt grandchildren Buzzie and …
White House Clubhouse
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2024
188 kr
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Marissa and Clara’s mom is the newly elected president of the United States, and they haven’t experienced much freedom lately. While exploring the White House they discover a hidden tunnel that leads to an underground clubhouse full of antique curiosities, doors heading in all directions—and a …
White House on Fire! (White House Clubhouse #2)
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2025
119 kr
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When the clubhouse fills with smoke, Marissa and Clara Suarez escape through one of its doors—and find themselves in James Madison’s presidency, with the White House and capital city set on fire by invading British troops! With an iconic portrait of George Washington in hand, they race through the …
White House Undercover (White House Clubhouse series)
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2026
188 kr
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White House kids Clara and Marissa Suarez find themselves on the hunt for a stolen eagle sculpture and on the front lines of the labour movement in this noir-style mystery that takes them through the streets of Great Depression–era Washington, DC. Along with Roosevelt grandchildren Buzzie and …
Downriver
Av Sean O'Brien
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O’Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is sounded more openly than ever before.With …
Collected Poems
Av Sean O'Brien
Inbunden, 2012
236 kr
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This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O’Brien’s work, as well as the enduring strength of his …
November
Av Sean O'Brien
E-bok, 2011
176 kr
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November is Sean O’Brien’s first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: lost sleep, connections, …
